by Dragon King
Bang! Bang!
Two big guys from the basketball team crashed onto the ground.
Xie Yujia’s eyes widened, astonished by Hao Ren’s great strength.
Anxious to save his buddy, Hao Ren stood up and grabbed another two guys from the basketball team by their shirt and swung them out with force; the two six-feet tall guys flew into the air!
All the people in the crowd were stunned… “Is him Superman coming to the rescue? He looks thin and weak, but he had just knocked down six to seven big guys from the basketball team in the blink of an eye!” they thought.
With a bruise on the corner of one eye, Zhou Liren, who was standing at the corner in the crowd, was also stunned. He was six feet tall, and he had tried to help Zhao Jiayi but was knocked down by one fist instantly.
Beside him, Cao Ronghua, who was even weaker than Zhou Liren, was standing there. He had tried to break up the fight and was pushed far away by one brawny arm of one of the basketball team members. He had called Hao Ren to get more help, but he was astonished to see Hao Ren knocking down all the opponents…
“Who dares to come?!” Red-eyed, Hao Ren shielded Zhao Jiayi with his body and yelled.
His act was extremely courageous in Xie Yujia’s eyes. Looking at Hao Ren who was sweaty and red in rage, Xie Yujia, a well-behaved student who hated fights, suddenly found him extremely dashing.
“Kid, who do you think you are?” the Power Forward in the basketball team stood up and threw his six-feet-four-inch body toward Hao Ren.
He didn’t believe Hao Ren could catch his body. He had blamed his earlier fall to his unpreparedness. After all, the brutal force of the basketball team was unrivaled!
Seeing this guy rushing toward him, Hao Ren’s rage ignited. He didn’t even dodge since his buddy, Zhao Jiayi was lying at his feet.
Bang! Hao Ren reached out and caught the six-feet-four-inch tall and 200-pounds Power Forward!
Their palms collided with each other. Like in Russian wrestling, they were competing with pure force!
Deng! Deng! Deng! Deng!
The brawny Power Forward was forced back four steps and then crashed onto the ground at the last unsteady step.
It happened in the blink of an eye.
All the people had disbelief on their faces.
“What happened?”
The question arose in the mind of everyone present.
The fallen Power Forward also looked at Hao Ren in astonishment. “This ordinary student who is one head shorter and half of my size pushed me to the ground!?” he thought, “I am the Power Forward of the basketball team which had won the champion of the College Basketball League…”
Snap! Snap!
The shoelaces on both of Hao Ren’s shoes snapped.
He bent his back and helped Zhao Jiayi to get up. He looked back at the members of the basketball team and spat out two words, “Just wait…”
Swoosh! The crowd stepped aside and opened a path for them automatically.
Hao Ren helped the limping Zhao Jiayi out of the basketball court and toward the dorm building outside the campus.
Zhou Liren and Cao Ronghua exchanged a look with each other, hurriedly stood up, and followed Hao Ren.
The dazzled crowd was left speechless on the basketball court, including Xie Yujia, who had her cell phone in her hand and was planning to call her older brother. Looking at the four guys leaving in the sunset through the wired fence of the basketball court, she was at a loss as to what to do next.
61 The Attitude of the School
The guys in dorm building No. 7 didn’t know about Zhao Jiayi’s fight until the four of them returned. Yu Rong, Gu Jiadong, Huang Jianfeng and the other students in the nearby dorm rooms all came over to ask about the incident.
They were all astonished when they knew Zhao Jiayi had been in a fight with the Savages from the basketball team. Zhou Liren’s eye swelled up and looked like a panda; Cao Ronghua, though not injured, had his clothes torn open; and Zhao Jiayi had the most severe injuries with a bloody mouth, a scratch on his forehead, a bleeding nose, and countless bruises on his arms and legs.
Only Hao Ren was intact except for his broken shoelaces. It was the most severe group casualties for Room 302 since the day they enrolled in school.
Yu Rong fetched some anti-infection medical solution from his own dorm and applied it to Zhou Liren’s wound. Zhao Jiayi, on the other hand, had to go to the hospital to check if he had any bone fractures.
“Damn! They dared to fight with us! Yu Rong, call all the guys from our department and go crash their training court!” Huang Jianfeng, who liked to stay in his room and read novels, was indignant. He called and shouted to Yu Rong, the most trustworthy guy among them who could summon a lot of students.
“Stop it!” suddenly, a crisp female voice came from the outside of the door.
Xie Yujia in her white shirt walked into Room 302. Under the watchful eyes of the guys, she walked to Zhao Jiayi and asked, “Are you all right?”
Zhao Jiayi didn’t expect the Class President would come to see him in person. He had been grimacing with pain, but now he suddenly toughed up and answered firmly, “I’m fine!”
Nodding, Xie Yujia looked at the other guys in the dorm and said, “School management is aware of the fight and is dealing with it. Don’t put yourselves in the wrong!”
“We should just forget about it after being beaten by them? No way!” Huang Jianfeng shouted.
“The members of the basketball teams are also injured. The Point Guard has a fracture in his arm, the Shooting Guard sprained his ankle, and the Power Forward injured his back. There will be a basketball match between our school and Jinghua University the week after next week. If they can’t play in the match, our school will be in the danger of losing. You must not do anything to make the matter worse!”
“The unrivaled players on the basketball team were also injured?”
The guys in Room 302 couldn’t believe the information Xie Yujia just told them.
Seeing their expressions, Xie Yujia continued, “In short, the school will deal with the matter seriously. You must not make the matter worse, or you will have to endure the consequences!”
Yu Rong took half a step forward and said, “But the school will surely stand behind the basketball team, and Zhao Jiayi will be punished unfairly. Besides, the record of disciplinary punishment would not affect the future of those guys on the basketball team while it would be different for Zhao Jiayi…”
“Fine! I will report it to the school!” Irritated, Xie Yujia interrupted Yu Rong.
She was incredibly bothered with the whole thing. On the one hand, the guys from her class caused trouble, but she didn’t want any of them to be punished. On the other hand, the starting players on the basketball team were injured because of the fight, and the basketball team would probably lose the match against Jinghua University in two weeks. Her older brother was now furious and had said he would handle this situation in person; that meant Hao Ren, main fighter, would face her older brother’s fury.
Besides, she had asked around about how the fight started. Zhao Jiayi and his two buddies had gone to the basketball court after finding no seats in the Internet Cafe. While they were playing, some members of the basketball team tried to take the court from them. Zhao Jiayi didn’t agree and argued with them. It had been quite an ordinary argument until Zhao Jiayi cussed at them and threw the basketball at one of the players on the basketball team. These members on the basketball team were always hot-tempered, and thus both parties got into a serious fight.
The fact was that Zhao Jiayi and his buddies had started the fight.
“Anyway, I’ll take you to the hospital and get you checked,” Xie Yujia turned to look at Zhao Jiayi and said.
“No! I’m fine!” Zhao Jiayi wanted to show his strong side in front of a girl.
“You better get a check-up. There will be more trouble if you have some unknown injuries,” Xie Yujia was stubborn; she grabbed Zhao Jiayi�
��s arm and insisted.
“Yeah, go check. The injury report will also be proof against them,” other guys urged.
“Fine,” Zhao Jiayi finally gave in. He looked at Zhou Liren and said “You will come as well. You must have your eye treated; you look like a panda!”
“Ok, ok…” rubbing his eye, Zhou Liren stood up.
Other guys volunteered to go with Zhao Jiayi, but Xie Yujia stopped them, saying, “Yu Rong and Cao Ronghua can accompany them. Hao Ren, you stay in the dorm and rest.”
Then she left the dorm with the four guys, and the other guys all returned to their own dorm rooms.
Xie Yujia came to their dorm and prevented the escalation of the situation while giving them comfort and emotional support. She was an excellent Class President.
Hao Ren was left alone in the dorm room. He thought for a while and was still unease. He dug out the thick Engineering Philosophy book and found Lu Qing’s business card that he put in it.
The school’s attitude on this incident was critical, and Lu Qing, the head vice president supervising the school’s management, would play an essential role in dealing with this incident.
Hao Ren didn’t want Zhao Jiayi to be mistreated. Although Zhao Jiayi started the fight, the trigger had been the long-time bullying behaviors of the players on the basketball team towards other students, especially junior students.
With the card in his hand, Hao Ren took out his phone and thought for half a minute about what he intended to say. He was about to dial the number when a thought occurred to him, so he put the card back into the book and stood up with the key of the dorm room.
It would be better to talk to Lu Qing face to face, rather than talking to him over the phone.
Hao Ren left the dorm building and hurried onto the campus. He went directly to vice president Lu Qing’s office, situated on the sixth floor of the administration building.
He knocked on the door and waited a while; no one answered or opened the door.
Worried that some teachers passing by would ask him questions, Hao Ren waited for half a minute at the door and had to leave when Lu Qing didn’t answer.
He knew the vice president was a busy man. Since the punishment decision wouldn’t be made so soon, Hao Ren was not very anxious. He wasn’t even certain that the fight had been reported to Lu Qing.
With this thought, Hao Ren took the elevator and went down. While he was walking out of the administration building, a mountain-like figure walked toward the entrance.
With a height of more than six-feet-five-inches and a width of almost three-feet-three-inches, this figure blocked the sunshine from coming in through the door.
The giant had to bend his back and lower his head to enter the door of the building. With a scowl on his face, he was not in a good mood.
Hao Ren guessed that he must be the legendary captain of the basketball team.
“Is he here to see the vice president Lu Qing, too?” the thought occurred to Hao Ren.
Indifferent to an ordinary student’s astonishment, the giant walked into the elevator from which Hao Ren had just come out.
Deng! Deng… The moment he walked into the elevator, it shook slightly.
Hao Ren stood there and watched the number above the elevator door change from one to two, three, four, five until it stopped at six.
62 The Unyielding!
Hao Ren thought about it for a moment but walked out of the Administrative Building and returned to his dorm instead.
On his way up the staircase and through the hall, he found that all of the male students, whether they knew him or not, were all staring at him strangely as if he was an alien.
“Is that him? Sun Han’s rumored boyfriend? The guy who beat Huang Xujie at the long-distance race, and the one who fought against half of the basketball team on his own?”
“You can’t really tell from his appearance, can you? He looks just like a normal kid, who would have thought…”
They continued to gossip behind Hao Ren’s back. None of them had ever imagined that Hao Ren, an ordinary looking student and a nobody in the school, could have badly beaten up those arrogant and presumptuous players on the basketball team.
Their words, more or less, had not escaped Hao Ren’s keen hearing. He found that as more people talked about it, the more exaggerated and distorted the descriptions of the incident had become.
Paying no attention to their comments, Hao Ren directly returned to the third floor; all he cared about right now was Zhao Jiayi’s condition.
“Ren, you took care of half of the basketball team all by yourself?” Gu Jiadong rushed out and asked astoundingly as he saw Hao Ren pass by their dorm room.
It seemed that the people in their dorm building fell behind on the news. After Zhao Jiayi went to the hospital and Hao Ren went to the Administrative Building, the reports of Hao Ren’s heroic deeds such as how he took on multiple players and frightened and restrained them finally came through.
By the time Hao Ren had come back, word had spread throughout the dorm building No.7 and the entire southern region of the dorm area.
“Is Zhao Jiayi and the others back yet?” Hao Ren asked.
“Not yet, but Yu Rong called just now and said that the test results are out. According to the results, Zhao Jiayi’s injuries are mostly bruises, and the worst injury was just a muscle strain on his right arm. Zhou Liren also only has a bruise around his eyes… and that’s all,” Gu Jiadong replied.
Hao Ren felt slightly relieved upon receiving this update. Luckily, Zhao Jiayi had tough skin. Acquiring only minor injuries after being assaulted by a round of basketball players indicated that Zhao Jiayi was no doubt the fittest in their dorm room.
“Oh, and there is something else,” seeing that Hao Ren started to head towards Room 302, Gu Jiadong stopped him and said, “Apparently, two of those guys on the basketball team have mild bone fractures, one pulled his hamstring, and one got scrapes on his back. Out of the six, four have been injured, and the situation seems more serious than what the Class President had said. Since this is the latest update acquired by Yu Rong, I think it should be accurate.”
Hao Ren went blank for a second and did not say anything.
“It seemed that the basketball team suffered more from this fight. No wonder even the basketball team captain, who usually only stayed in the training court and rarely made any appearances in the school had gone to talk to Lu Qing in person. Not only that, he looked horrifyingly mad. This matter won’t be settled very easily,” he thought, “Nonetheless, taking advantage of their special status, the bad eggs on the basketball team had been bullying other students on a regular basis. Therefore, they weren’t so innocent, and one might even say that this outcome served them right.”
Taking out his key, he got into their dorm room and seated himself in front of his desk. He then opened a textbook and tried to read, but he couldn’t digest any of it. After all, with the occurrence of such a hectic incident, he could not remain calm.
Shortly after, Zhao Jiayi and Zhou Liren had returned with Xie Yujia’s company.
When they saw that Hao Ren was reading on the balcony, they couldn’t help but almost applaud him for being so composed.
“How was it? Are you alright?” Hao Ren inquired as soon as the gang walked in.
“Nothing serious. I just pulled my arm. With a few days of rest, it will be fine,” Zhao Jiayi answered. After today’s incident, he looked to Hao Ren with a slight sense of reverence.
No one would have guessed that Hao Ren, who was mild and gentle and had a name even resembled the pronunciation of “good person”, was such an incredible fighter. To Zhao Jiayi, who had shared a room with Hao Ren for a long time and supposedly knew him well, it came as an even bigger surprise.
“You already know about the situation with the basketball team, right?” Yu Rong walked over and asked Hao Ren.
“Yes, more or less,” Hao Ren put the book back on the desk.
“The basketball team consi
sts of 12 players. Four of them are now injured, and they are all starting players. Not only that, this incident will likely affect the outcome of the basketball match between East Ocean University and Jinghua University which is taking place two weeks from now. Hence, the school will definitely take this incident seriously,” Xie Yujia said solemnly as she turned to face Hao Ren.
She was a little irritated. At a time like this, the fact that Hao Ren was able to read calmly and act as if nothing had happened had angered her. She felt like all the worries she had for him had gone to waste.
“Ren, this has nothing to do with you. I started the whole thing! It doesn’t matter if it results in punishment or expulsion, I am the one responsible and will deal with the consequences alone!” Zhao Jiayi spoke up suddenly.
“What nonsense, I was the one who injured those guys, and you are a victim who was assaulted by those players. This has nothing to do with you!” Hao Ren stood up and stated determinedly.
“Don’t leave me out!” with bruises around one of his eyes, Zhou Liren stood with them.
“Me too. They’d better penalize none of us or all of us! F*ck, if they’re going to make one of us a scapegoat, then all of us in Room 302 will be scapegoats together!” Cao Ronghua who was usually gentle and soft-spoken declared fiercely.
“Alright! Stop this, you guys!” Xie Yujia raised her hand and interrupted them, “At any rate, I will try my best to ease things with the school. Don’t you dare stir up any more trouble at this time!”
Zhao Jiayi disagreed with her words, “What do mean we stirred up trouble, they were the ones…”
Seeing that Zhao Jiayi was raising his voice at Xie Yujia, Hao Ren promptly pulled at Zhao Jiayi’s arm to stop him from continuing. He then turned to Xie Yujia and said, “Thank you, Class President, and sorry for all the trouble we caused you.”
Looking at Hao Ren, Xie Yujia paused and gave up on lecturing him. In the end, she could only let out a sigh. “Ay…”